Notes & News - Home Gardens

In climates that can be highly variable from year to year, experienced fruit growers know the value of crop diversity. To spread the risk of crop failure, home growers can add higher- or lower-chill varieties for their differing adaptabilities and bloom times, disease-resistant varieties, and varieties with different ripening dates. A good place to start might be

At most Northern and Central California locations, accumulated fruit tree chilling from November 1st to February 10th was lower than a year ago in terms of chill hours (hours below 45°F). In terms of chill portions as calculated using the more complex Dynamic Model, however,

The Variety Finder now includes DWN's 34 kinds of multiple-budded fruit trees: combinations from cold hardy to low-chill to "fruit salad". Use the Variety Finder to locate retail nursery sources for each multi-bud combination.

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